Changing Asia’s Labor Conditions

5/14/2013 5:33AM

Some of Europe’s biggest retailers signed an agreement to improve safety conditions at Bangladesh's garment factories. Asia Monitor Resource Center’s Sanjiv Pandita tells the WSJ’s Deborah Kan why he doubts some of these guidelines will be regulated.

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